[Yum] package ordering instructions?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Aug 15 02:47:57 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 16:39 -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> I've found that sometimes when I have dependancies, rpm doesn't dtrt
> with a long list of packages.
> 
> So if I have a package that depends on a perl module being installed,
> rpm by itself will happily disable dependancy checking and then
> install everything at once, perhaps in alphabetical order.
> 
> Will yum do the right thing, and ensure that packages are installed
> and configured in a sane order?
> 
> I understand that there can be issues here, such as dependancy loops,
> that packagers need to be made aware of the dependancies in their
> packages and work around it there, etc. to be in the ideal situation,
> but where there aren't these complexities, is this situation taken
> care of in yum through some mechanism? 
> 
> Even if that mechanism is some kind of manual hint in the creation of
> the repository it would help my ability to deploy yum.
> 

Yum uses rpmlib's transaction ordering. so if rpm got it right then yum
should get it right, too.

-sv





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